… maximize the surface area to volume ratio
No. Minimize.
Doesn’t it minimise your surface area?
Yeah, they accidentally got it backwards, it maximizes your volume to surface area ratio.
American education in action!
Yes, and it works both ways. Bergmann’s rule basically says that within a group of related species, the ones living in cold climates tend to be bigger and heavier, those in hot places tend to be smaller. The reason is geometry: as a body gets bigger, its volume, and with it the heat it produces, grows with the cube of its size, but the skin radiating that heat only grows with the square. So being big and chunky is a great way to keep warm, and being small gives you way more skin relative to what’s inside, which cools you down relatively speaking. This effect is increased by Allen’s rule according to which animals of the same group in cold climates tend to have shorter ears, tails and limbs, those in hot places have longer appendages. See the Arctic fox vs. the fennec to get an impression.
why would you ai generate a tumblr post…
Right? Here’s the original, I believe.
Oh, NOW the reply makes sense.
Thanks I’ll swap it out
“Like apparently” sounds to me like they think its a ground breaking concept, but it is just simple math…
Idk, I found this meme laying in a gutter somewhere, next to a half eaten KFC meal.
you should have left it there tbh
Jeez, how did I not notice that the rabbit has 3 ears?
You can estimate the ambient temperature in a photo of a sleeping cat from the cat’s pose: if it’s cold, they’ll form a loaf to conserve heat, and if it’s hot, they’ll sprawl out to dissipate it.
Now we just need to include cats in all photos (but that was already the goal anyway)
At the same time: giraff
explanation: Giraffes live where it’s a LOT warmer.
Then how do we explain Norwegians?
They were/are Vikings so good luck trying to explain that, but i’d say ungodly amounts of mead so no need to warm yourself up, just drink more mead.
Is long boy ✅ lives in hot ✅
Its a snow poff
I’m not a baker but aren’t loaves of bread baked in high temperatures?
